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Value Form

Core question: “What do we care about?”

An orientation toward what matters. Values don’t prescribe action — they orient it. Slow-changing; evolves over decades.

Structural Contract

A value form requires:

• The value — Named and stated clearly. Examples: autonomy, dignity, human flourishing.
• Scope — Where this value applies and what it means in practice.
• Tension with other values — What competing values create trade-offs. Values rarely exist in isolation.
• Sources — Origin material or experiences the value emerged from.
• Relations — Connections to convictions it rests on and principles it generates.

Naming heuristic: abstract quality or orientation as a noun phrase. Name the value itself. “Knowledge Durability” not “Knowledge Should Be Durable.”

Typical Predicates

• is_a::[\[\[Value Form\]\]](Value%20Form.html)
• has_status::[\[\[Seed Stage\]\]](Seed%20Stage.html) or [\[\[Evergreen Stage\]\]](Evergreen%20Stage.html)
• in_domain::[\[\[Domain Name\]\]↑](../NODES.html#:~:text=Domain%20Name)
• grounded_in::[\[\[Conviction Form\]\]](Conviction%20Form.html) — convictions this value rests on
• generates::[\[\[Principle Form\]\]](Principle%20Form.html) — principles derived from this value

Exemplars

• [[Reasoning Fidelity]] — capture how someone reasons, not just what they know, so agents can decide as the owner would
• [[Knowledge Durability]] — knowledge should outlast the tools used to capture it, driving plain text and zero-dependency constraints

Category

Orientation form — establishes what matters and what we believe.

Sources

Definition from [[Deep Context as an Architecture for Captured Reasoning]], line 50.

Relations

• relates_to::[[Conviction Form]] — convictions ground values
• relates_to::[[Principle Form]] — values generate principles
• relates_to::[[Boundary Form]] — boundaries protect what values prioritize

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